Linux Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

Linux Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

Which Linux distros do you have experience with?

1 4997

Why have you choosen such a combination of products?

2 4968

Which distro you prefer? Why?

IBM,

3 8258

Which tool would you use to update Debian / Slackware / RedHat / Mandrake / SuSE ?

2 8109

What does ?route? command do?

IBM,

7 20136

Display the Disk Usage of file sizes under each directory in currentDirectory ?

8 15661

Set the Display automatically for the current new user ?

3 11060

How shared memory are accessed if we have two processors trying to acquire the same region.

NetApp,

3 17539

Why do we have serial and parallel interface, which one was faster and why and when we should go for this interface.

NetApp,

4 14685

Say we have three threads T1, T2 and T3 which perform sequentially one after another is their any benefit of using thread over here rather than having a single process.

NetApp,

11 22122

What is the use of thread over process?

NetApp,

11 28992

What are the signals we have in Linux

HCL, NetApp,

3 13130

what is segmentation fault?

AdTel, NetApp,

11 38948

what is bus trap.

NetApp,

1 10760

What is the use of proc structure?

NetApp,

2 13079

Un-Answered Questions { Linux }

how will you distinguish if it is a process or a thread, provided you know pid in linux operating system?

798

How do I search bash history?

880

How compile c++ program in cmd?

1082

We saw the mention on the linux bios website about one million devices shipped with linux bios. Could you tell us more about these devices?

846

What is sudo in linux?

1002

Explain grep command.

1008

What is synchronization linux?

1024

What are benefits of linux?

914

What does umask 077 mean?

988

What is curl in linux?

932

Why is linux safer than windows?

906

If we transfer 100 files by ftp to remote server, how to know the files are successfully transfer or some file are not transferred?

1002

What are grep commands?

1050

Which is the most stable linux distro?

893

Does free memory exist on linux?

1052

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